hectormalot

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by hectormalot 18d ago
Can I ask why you have this sentiment? I think the Euro has been a great achievement. It seems quite stable compared to its predecessor currencies and it’s convenient for trade across the union.
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Why Lean is faster than Rust(kim-em.github.io)
4 points by hectormalot 25d ago|0 comments
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by hectormalot 2mo ago
I’m not sure it will go this direction. Using a generic (near) frontier model is often cheap enough that you need to talk really big volumes before it pays off to fine tune. My example: we were doing single digit millions of automated call
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by hectormalot 2mo ago
Likely a lot of those tokens are cached. And because it’s an individual project it’s likely this is under a personal Claude Max 20x plan.
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by hectormalot 4mo ago
Ah my mistake, I thought he was making a broader point that other providers always have deep subprocessor stacks.
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by hectormalot 4mo ago
We have a vendor with almost no subprocessors because they run their own hardware in a colo. It is refreshing actually. They can accurately answer questions on how everything works and there is no subsubsubprocessors to worry about.
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by hectormalot 4mo ago
The thing that surprises me is they flew back to Newark for almost 90 minutes. It doesn't make sense to me. (1) Either you believe the threat is credible and you put it down at the nearest suitable airport in the least amount of time.
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by hectormalot 5mo ago
Thanks, appreciate the details. 99% is far above the amount I expected, and if it specifically hits hard to cache data then I can see how that brings a system to its knees.
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by hectormalot 5mo ago
Thanks. I imagine there is a (a) a lot of interest in scraping source code, and (b) many requests to forges hitting expensive paths. 99% of volume though, wow, much more than expected.
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by hectormalot 5mo ago
Maybe I’m naive about this, but I didn’t expect AI scrapers to be that big of a load? I mean, it’s not that they need to scrape the same at 1000+ QPS, and even then I wouldn’t expect them to download all media and images either? What am I m
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by hectormalot 5mo ago
Stellar | Amsterdam, the Netherlands | Onsite (2 days remote OK) | €70-100k + equity | https://stellarcs.ai Hey, I'm one of Stellar's founders. We're building AI for large contact centers, our primary product is v
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by hectormalot 6mo ago
Stellar | Amsterdam, the Netherlands | Onsite (2 days remote OK) | €70-100k + equity | https://stellarcs.ai Hey, I'm one of Stellar's founders. We're building AI for large contact centers, our primary product is v
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by hectormalot 6mo ago
Indeed. Similar accident (USAir 1493/Skywest 5569) shows that thinking exactly.[1] Was easy to pin on the controller, they went far beyond that in their analysis. Almost always impressed with the professionalism of those organizations.
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by hectormalot 6mo ago
There’s both a quality and quantity angle. For some work, similar to the philosophy example of GP, LLMs can help with depth/quality. Is additive to your own thinking. -> quality approach For other things. I take a quantity approach.
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by hectormalot 7mo ago
Datapoint: I’m running nightly now because the latest 1.2 release has a known crash-on-wake bug when disconnecting an external monitor. Accordingly the issue tracker it was fixed months ago, but it’s not in a release. The nightly is stable
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by hectormalot 7mo ago
We're doing a lot with the realtime models. Happy to see a new release. Initial feel from a few calls is that it seems to perform better with alphanumeric inputs. Voice seems consistent. Recognition on a few tests seems to be somewhat
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GPT-Realtime-1.5 Released(twitter.com)
5 points by hectormalot 7mo ago|2 comments
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by hectormalot 7mo ago
SQLC for me has been able to replace most cases of use an ORM for. It made most of the boilerplate of using plain SQL go away, I get type safe responses, and it forces me to be more mindful of the queries I write. In an app where we do use
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by hectormalot 8mo ago
> So, what's your trick to avoid getting skipped Ideally write the hiring manager and not HR. And, write something that makes it hard to not want to talk to you. 1: Minimal hygiene is writing something that shows you read the vacanc
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by hectormalot 8mo ago
Context: I’m in the Netherlands. With taxes, power is around 25cent/kWh for me. For reference: Amsterdam is around a latitude of 52N, which is north enough that it only hits Alaska, not the US mainland. I installed 2800Wp solar for abo
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by hectormalot 9mo ago
Thx, forgot to double enter.
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by hectormalot 9mo ago
Im in this business, and used to think the same. It turns out this is a minority of callers. Some examples: - a client were working does advertising in TV commercials, and a few percent of their calls is people trying to cancel their TV sub
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by hectormalot 9mo ago
> On the other hand, if each service experiences the same hour per year of downtime but at different times, then the person is likely to be blocked for closer to 100 hours per year. I think the parent post made a different argument: - Ce
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Peekaping – self-hosted uptime monitoring, in Go(peekaping.com)
3 points by hectormalot 10mo ago|1 comments
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by hectormalot 11mo ago
As I was typing this it came to mind. Will test against one of my own servers one of these days to confirm.
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by hectormalot 11mo ago
I have 1Gbit at home, but almost never reach those speeds when downloading games. It’s one of those cases where it makes sense (I want to play now!), but I’m under the impression the limit is upstream (at steam most likely), rather than on
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by hectormalot 1y ago
Partly, I did the electrical work myself (dug a cable to the shed, added a breaker, etc). Asked the installer to put the panels on the roof and connect it to the existing line. The roof is low, so access was easy and they were done in a les
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by hectormalot 1y ago
Oops yes, that would otherwise make for very cheap solar.
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by hectormalot 1y ago
Netherlands. No distribution fees are separate. Roughly speaking the electricity is about €0.06 with about €0.20 in taxes on top. So offsetting consumption nets me about €0.26 cents per kWh. The installation of a 2800kWp system cost me abou
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by hectormalot 1y ago
It depends. 80% of my electricity cost is taxes. If I produce it using PV, the consumption is never taxed, and the benefit is pretty substantial, on top of the market electricity price. (One rarely finds low risk investments that return 20-

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